Susan Shepherd

Susan started out writing about science and nature for the Boston Globe, and producing for the show Living on Earth before realizing that studying humans was much more amusing. When she gets too amused she remembers that she also works for the World Vision Report, a weekly public radio show about international poverty and injustice. She's written a number of screenplays and taught screenwriting at the Boston Film and Video Foundation.

Kat Tatlock

A native of Chicago (Kathy Deutch) and long-time Bostonian, Kat Tatlock brings to her writing, producing and directing a true love of people, places, and stories. She has written, produced and directed dozens of award-winning dramatic and documentary films and videos for a wide variety of clients, markets, and venues. A graduate of U of Michigan and Sorbonne, Boston University Film School, and the Sundance Institute where she developed her first feature screenplay, Kat was also the founding VP of Women in Film & Video New England and has conducted many workshops in writing, producing and directing in the community.

Kat is currently producing “The Kasia Project,” a feature documentary about the world of a unique doctor/athlete/musician/filmmaker ovarian cancer survivor and has recently written narrations for two six-hours public television series produced in the Netherlands and Boston, “Water – The Drop of Life,” and “A Dollar A Day” (global poverty), and is developing a dramatic feature on the post-impressionist artist Suzanne Valadon with her friend and colleague Rebecca Richards.

Diane Toomey

Diane Toomey is the Senior Editor at the World Vision Report, a radio program about international poverty and injustice. Prior to that, she spent four years as the science editor at Living On Earth.

She has also worked as a field producer on a documentary series for the Discovery Health Channel on alternative medicine At WUNC, the public radio stations out of Chapel Hill, NC, she reported on science, environment and medical topics for five years.

And she was a producer and substitute host for the Marketplace Morning Report. She began her radio career at KPFK, the Pacifica station in Los Angeles. She has also worked as an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles.

Sean Hurley

Sean is a writer and actor who produces a podcast "Atoms, Motion, and the Void," which was voted "best podcast in New Hampshire" by New Hampshire magazine. In addition to his podcast, he has produced numerous pieces for public radio and a stageplay.

Ruth Pennebaker

Ruth Pennebaker has been a newspaper columnist, award-winning young-adult novelist and monthly commentator for Austin's public radio station, KUT. She and her sister, Ellen Dlott, will soon be cranking up a blog tentatively titled geezersisters. Deserted by her two college-bound children, Ms. Pennebaker lives in Austin with her mad-scientist husband and a neutered cat named Lefty.

Gail Shepherd

Writer Gail Shepherd has over twenty years experience as a writer, editor and publisher with management experience of the newspaper and magazine business. She is a widely published author in a variety of fields and in local, national and international media: hard news, interviews, arts features, food and entertainment writing, opinion, informational books, fiction and poetry. She published and edited "Red Herring," the longest-running independent entertainment tabloid in Palm Beach County.

Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine and the Yale Review, She currently reviews restaurants for New Times Newspapers.

Barry Payne

Barry was born and raised in Kenya and came to the states when he was eighteen to go to the University of Denver. He got his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT. He owns a snake named Isiah, which has only bitten two people, and the first person mightily deserved it.

Joel Brussell

I have a weekly comedy show "The I Hate Poetry Poety Hour Half Hour" on a small community station whose range is equivalent to the arc of a man's urine. Below is a description of the show and what people are saying: Imagine characters like Dr. Gooda, a pryropractor, a chiropractor for pyromaniacs who develop back problems bending down to light fuses, or Sid of Sids Locksmiths and Pedicures, 'cause opening your car door and taking care of your feet aren't that different. Or Litigation Man, who sued himself so many times his atoms split apart just to shield his assets from the other atoms. Now lay in in-between these bits with skillful bleed ins, the brilliantly funky creations of Beck, the timeless country rock of the Band, the luring manic rhythms of the Talking heads and you get a sense of the modern musical glue that not only binds the show, but adds a whole new layer of energy. Well you don't have to imagine this is the I Hate Poetry Poetry Hour Half Hour -- 20 shows in the can and another original show written and produced every week. To read Joel's blog.

Sandra Miller

Sandra Miller delights in writing about families and relationships, including her own. Recently Sting’s wife Trudie Styler turned Sandra’s personal essay about meeting her husband Mark into a short Hollywood film called WAIT, produced by Glamour Magazine. Kerry Washington and Debi Mazar starred.

Her essays and fiction have also appeared in an eclectic array of print and online publications ranging from Modern Bride to Literarymama.

Susy Pilgrim Waters

Susy is primarily an editorial illustrator, who dabbles in paint and design. Her clients include, Travel and Leisure, Utne Reader, and The New York Times. Her by-line goes some thing like this......design.clean.messy.whimsey.saucy.cheeky.with GUSTO.

George Hicks

Since 2000, George plunged into long–form radio as producer and technical director winning DuPont-Columbia, RFK Memorial Journalism, and Overseas Press Club honors. George served as technical director for NPR's The Connection, Car Talk, Only A Game, On Point and PRI's Here & Now. Earlier, George spent fifteen years as a freelance engineer / producer, recording diverse artists such as Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Itzhak Perlman and Roscoe Mitchell. In addition to performing his original music for 11 Central Ave., George also provided incidental music for two radio docs. Way before anything else, he skyrocketed to anonymity with various rock, reggae and funk bands, both avant– and derriere–guard, in hotspots such as Boston and Wichita Falls, Texas.

Walter Dixon

Walter is a freelance producer & voice actor, and a 10 year veteran of public radio. He mixes podcasts and radio dramas. He also narrates/records audiobooks out of his home studio near Boston for McGraw Hill and other publishers. His voice work includes: books on tape for the Library of Congress, local & national commercial radio ads, museum audio tours, animated feature character voices and more..